Arab Mujahideen in Chechnya

The Arab Mujahideen in Chechnya was an international force of Islamist mujahideen fighters that volunteeered to fight for the Chechen cause during the First Chechen War, Second Chechen War, and the insurgency that followed the second war. Formed in 1995 when Mufti Akhmad Kadyrov declared a jihad against Russia, the mujahideen consisted of 500-700 Muslim Arabs by 2007, with Fathi al-Jordani, Abdurahman al-Zarki, Ibn al-Khattab, Abu al-Walid, Abu Hafs al-Urduni, Muhannad, and Abdulla Kurd leading the mujahideen in a resistance war against the Russian Army. The mujahideen gave fighters and money to the Chechens, primarily during the Second Chechen War, but all of the major leaders of the Arab mujahideen were killed by 2011, ending with Kurd's assassination.